Dagster is looking for a product-minded software engineer to join the team working on Dagster+, their hosted SaaS product, to help make Dagster the de facto cloud solution for organizations to build, manage, and leverage their data assets. The engineer will drive improvements to Dagster's backend system, underlying open source framework, and product UI to unlock new capabilities for users.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software development experience
- Fluency in Python or a similar high-level programming language
- Proficiency with frontend development (React)
- Expertise across the full software development lifecycle, from planning to delivery and iteration
- Experience in a high-functioning engineering organization working on B2B SaaS applications or large-scale distributed systems
- Experience building services on Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes & Postgres
- Experience with Dagster or related data orchestrators.
Responsibilities
- Drive improvements to Dagster’s backend system, underlying open source framework, and product UI to unlock new capabilities for our users.
- Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and work collaboratively with the rest of the team to plan and execute.
- Instrument, monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems from end to end.
- Lead and execute product development initiatives from prototype to user adoption, in collaboration with product and design and your peers in engineering.
- Participate in technical architecture discussions and help the team make key technical decisions.
- Solve difficult technical problems throughout the software stack and get projects over the finish line, across front-end, back-end, or infrastructure.
- Proactively identify and address opportunities for enhancement—be it in code quality, user experience, or overall performance—and lead initiatives to make these improvements happen.
Other
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team
- Interest in progressing into a tech lead role, and relevant experience
- Experience with using or supporting tools in the Modern Data Stack
- Experience engaging directly with users for research and support.
- We are a distributed team with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Minneapolis.
- We have team members all over the U.S. and we are hiring fully remote candidates in the U.S.
- No recruiters please.
